January 10, 2012
The January 2012 return broadcast mixes technology history with the easy humor and judgment that made Dr. Dave and Evil Steve’s conversations distinctive. Dr. Dave recounts a Craigslist seller who wanted a laptop purchased without being inspected, while the brothers calculate that the first radio waves from their 1991 debut had already traveled twenty-one light-years. Their discussion of favored cameras, cars, motorcycles, speakers and amplifiers becomes a broader lesson: a trusted name can guide a choice, but quality still has to be discerned rather than assumed. The show also captures Gorilla Glass 2 as an emerging device material and remembers that the most enjoyable part of Comdex was driving Mercedes test cars through a coned course.
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8 parts, 95:08 total. All preserved transcript parts in this selection have been reviewed for content and sequence. The archive includes show breaks; this is not a verified uninterrupted recording. The air date remains proposed.
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Regular show: hour recordings
2 recordings · 107:39 total within this version.
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Regular show: segments
8 recordings · 95:08 total within this version.
Numbered positions are present in sequence. This alone does not prove the show is complete.